Each
time you have a plant-based
lunch like a PB&J you'll reduce your carbon footprint by the
equivalent of
2.5 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions over an average animal-based
lunch like
a hamburger, a tuna sandwich, grilled cheese, or chicken nuggets. For
dinner you
save 2.8 pounds and for breakfast 2.0 pounds of emissions.

Those
2.5 pounds of emissions at
lunch are about forty percent of the greenhouse gas emissions you'd
save
driving around for the day in a hybrid instead of a standard sedan.

If
you have a PB&J instead of a
red-meat lunch like a ham sandwich or a hamburger, you shrink your
carbon
footprint by almost 3.5 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.

Conserve
Water: 133 Gallons

You'll conserve water at lunch
too! How about 133 gallons of water conserved at lunch versus the
average
American lunch? To put this in perspective, five PB&Js or other
plant-based
lunches per month would save more water than switching to a low-flow
showerhead. If you're replacing hamburgers, it should take you just
three
lunches to conserve more water than the low-flow showerhead.

Save Land: 24 Square Feet

Don't
forget the land you save
from deforestation, over-grazing, and pesticide and fertilizer
pollution: about
24 square feet at lunch.